TO THE EDITORS OFPUT PRAVDY

Published:First published in 195G in the JournalKommunistNo. 5.

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February 9, 1914

DearColleagues,

Ihave received a letter from the secretary about the
unfortunate article which has put the newspaper in
peril.[1]It’s a great pity that publicity was given (was
it a board decision?) to this unfortunate article in which
they contrived to find evidence of ties between the
papers....

Havingonly just come home after a journey “on matters
of
business”,[2]I looked through all the published issues
and havefailed to find twoarticles which I sent (about a
month ago!) in reply to F. D. on the subject of unity “(The
Liquidators’ Leader on the Liquidators’ Terms of Unity”
is the title of the first of these
articles).[3]The articles
are absolutely essential, especially in view of the new
journalBorba,[4]and it is necessary to publish thembeforeit comes out. Yet the articles have not been
published, and (as though making a mockery of any
collective work) you haven’t written me a single line for a
whole month about their fate! ((If they are too long,
which however is improbable, I would have sent them toProsveshcheniye.))

Really,I quite fail to understand this way of doing
business! How can you treat contributors—and colleagues—in
this manner?

Please,reply!

Withgreetings,V. I.

P.S.Please send meProletarskaya PravdaNo. 11 (29)Put PravdyNo. 2[5]Novaya Rabochaya GazetaNo. 8 (126).

P.S.Do you happen to have a file of the journalMysl,[6]or any separate issues? Please, send them over.

[1]Thesecretary of thePravdaeditorial board, K. N. Samoilova,
informed the C.C., R.S.D.L.P. in her letter of January 25 (
February 7), 1914, of the closure of the newspaperProletarskaya Pravda(Proletarian Truth), and the possible closure ofPut Pravdy(Path
of Truth). Her fear arose from the fact that as a result of the
publication, inPut Pravdyof January 23, 1914, of the article “That Is
Why It Exists...” under the signature of “M. F.” (M. Firin,
subsequently exposed as the provocateur M. Y. Chernomazov) which
revealed the continuity between the various names ofPravda(Truth),Rabochaya Pravda(Workers’ Truth),Severnaya Pravda(Northern Truth),Pravda Truda(Labour Truth), etc., Petrovsky
was prosecuted.

[2]Lenin’strip to Paris, Brussels, Liege and Leipzig in January and
early February 1914 in connection with the work of the Fourth
Congress of the Social-Democratic Party of the Latvian Region,
and his lectures on the national question.

[3]Seepresent edition, Vol. 20, pp. 95–98.

[4]Borba(Struggle)—a journal published by Trotsky, seven issues of
which appeared in St. Petersburg from February 22 (March 7)
to July 1914. Trotskyites, liquidators and members of theVperyodgroup contributed to the magazine, which under the cover of
Trotsky’s “non-factionalism” fought Lenin and the Bolshevik
Party.

[5]TheBolshevikPravdawas issued under the name ofProletarskaya
Pravda(Proletarian Truth) from December 7 (20), 1913 to
January 22 (February 4), 1914, and under the name ofPut Pravdy(Path of Truth) from January 22 (February 4) to May 21 (June 3).

[6]Mysl(Thought)—a Bolshevik legal philosophical and socio–
economic journal published in Moscow from December 1910 to
April 1911. It was started by Lenin to offset and fight the
liquidators’ magazines.